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to trade and to the prosperity and progress of this Colony.
7.
For myself, I may be
· permitted to take this opportunity, of expressing my thankfulness that
I have been able to
carry out.
the
faithfully and energetically | instructions of Her Majesty's | Government, and to enforce the
of neutrality and the provisions of the "Foreign Enlistment
laws
Aet, during the recent prolonged
crisis, when
on
any
England with both France and China. As has been said on
previous occasion, the Times
ago,
remarked, some months
a
in a
-leading article, that "In a state of
#
virtual war,
which
may yet
in
" strictness not be war, Sir George
"Bowen has had to perform
#
difficult and delicate task,
a
sense and
requiring great good tact" "The highest Diplomatie
#!
Authority in the East recently
wrote to me as
serious
false step
#
my part might have embroiled
England
follows : _ "I quite
appreciate the difficulty of your
position
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